"I am making this offer as a resident of New York and citizen of the United States, not because I think the location is a spectacular one (because it is not), but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse."

Note he's not making this decision because he himself hates the mosque, although his stipulations on the purchase would prevent a mosque from being built anywhere in a five-block radius of the site.